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newms-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a topic fits New Media & Society (NM&S) and how to frame it for an interdisciplinary digital-media-and-society readership. Tests fit and stakes; it does not design the study or write the paper.
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# Topic Selection & Fit (newms-topic-selection)
NM&S is the broad **interdisciplinary** journal on digital media, the internet, and society — not a
platform-studies newsletter, a computer-science venue, or a US quantitative communication-science
journal. A fitting topic says something about **how new media and society shape each other**, legible
to readers across sociology, media and communication, STS, political science, and the humanities.
## When to trigger
- Deciding whether an idea belongs at NM&S vs. a sibling venue
- A reader said the work is "too niche," "just a case study," or "atheoretical"
- Framing a study of one platform so it speaks to digital media and society broadly
## The four-part fit test